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Who Pays for Labor Strikes?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 11.

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Who Pays for Labor Strikes?

The victories that labor strikers gain over corporate employers are, as a rule, only victories over the people at large, most of whom are comparatively poor, and many of them extremely poor. The corporations are seldom losers. For instance: The United Mine Workers have succeeded in getting an advance of 12½ cents a ton for mining bituminous coal, with the result that the wholesale price goes up 30 cents per ton, and that will advance the price to consumers considerably more.